{"id":750,"date":"2025-11-07T12:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T17:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T11:13:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T16:13:53","slug":"a-little-book-a-big-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/?p=750","title":{"rendered":"A LITTLE BOOK, A BIG DIFFERENCE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love board books, and despite being warned by other authors not to publish one because of the expense, I went right ahead and founded my own publishing company:\u00a0 Salt Cove Publications, and have published the first board book in a series of six:\u00a0 &#8220;What Do Toes Do?&#8221; The books arrived October 1st, 2025, and I&#8217;m happy to report that I have sold more than 80 books, and have donated 148. By donating books, I&#8217;m getting them to families in need, to libraries, a NICU, and to literacy groups that not only give away free books, but also support people in crisis such as expectant mothers who are incarcerated.<\/p>\n<p>It gets better. Just last week I received this beautiful photograph of a new mother reading my book to her newborn. She is in the NICU at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, MA and was so surprised to be given a copy of &#8220;What Do Toes Do?&#8221; She gave me permission to use the photo and I&#8217;m really glad because when I saw it, I knew I was doing exactly what I should be doing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Mother-and-newborn-Baystate-with-book.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-755 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Mother-and-newborn-Baystate-with-book-e1762535061230-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Mother-and-newborn-Baystate-with-book-e1762535061230-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Mother-and-newborn-Baystate-with-book-e1762535061230-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love board books, and despite being warned by other authors not to publish one because of the expense, I went right ahead and founded my&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-books","category-jean"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2j73q-c6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions\/777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}